NICK Gindre may reflect that his clash in mid-Aries with a man named Leo was written in the stars. Commenting on the latter of those two star-signs on Saturday, magazine astrologer Jonathan Cainer wrote, ‘things are happening which have happened before and some involve repeat performances of tiresome dramas.’

Given Leo Fortune-West has got previous this season for the over-aggressive manner in which he conducts himself on a football pitch it was a prophetic statement.

Thankfully for Gindre his cheekbone didn’t end up in Pisces.

“I thought I’d broken my eye socket,” said the likeable Argentinian after his face came into contact with the United striker’s flailing elbow midway through the first half. “I’d like to think he never meant it but those things happen in football I guess.”

Although it ended the Woking man’s afternoon between the posts, severe bruising around the eye and a couple of superficial cuts was a far better outcome than one might have expected after such a horrific collision. One man’s misfortune became another’s opportunity though, as Woking stopped the last 100 per cent record in this division with another stoic defensive display.

Ross Worner, a former academy keeper and aged 17, got his big break in the Woking first team — the only other occasion being as a substitute in the pre-season friendly at Bognor.

“I was nervous when I got on but I just got on with it and tried to relax and take my time,” said Worner, suddenly thrust in to the media spotlight after the match. “The manager said to me good luck, take it easy and have a good time. The defence protected me and were awesome.”

The defensive unit was indeed just that, with Tom Hutchinson once again magnificent at the heart of what was effectively a back six, Bradley Quamina protecting the area immediately in front of the central back three. Quamina again performed well, getting stronger in the second half, but in manager Gray’s words he needs to know when to give the ball once he’s won it, as all too often he handed the initiative to the opposition with a wayward pass.

One such moment almost cost Woking a share of the points with just 10 minutes remaining in an intriguing contest but one almost devoid of goalmouth action. His square pass straight to Danny Brown saw the Cambridge skipper release Fortune-West for the best chance of the match as he raced clear of the defensive runners to confront Worner just inside the penalty area.

Inexplicably, he failed to hit the target when he should have at least called Worner into action.

On this evidence, United are not going to be the power their first three results suggested. That they failed to force Worner in to a save for the 67 minutes he was in goal was a crime from their point of view.

“It goes to show how well we defended in the game when a young keeper comes on and has one cross and no saves to make,” said Cards’ boss Frank Gray.

“The game would have been much the same had Nick been in goal. Losing him was a blow but it was difficult to see what happened from my position.

“There was a lot of bodies there, Nick was in the middle of it, went down, and then didn’t get up. “But that was only one incident in the game. Overall we’ve got to be really proud of the lads who worked so hard. “Cambridge are a strong side and I can’t see them being too far away at the end of the season. They had a lot of possession but what did they actually produce in the game?”

The answer was not a lot. But then neither did Woking.

The way they are set up on Saturday was almost a 7-1-1-1 formation and certainly not conventional. It has long been established that the team’s big problem will be scoring goals playing like that.

Matt Ruby and Danny Bunce were more full-backs on Saturday than wing-backs and they rarely got forward to assist the hard working Goma Lambu, while Jerome Maledon ended up playing alongside Quamina.

Relying on Marvin Morgan to score goal of the season every week is not an option and Giuseppe Sole understandably came deep to receive the ball or risk not being involved at all. But the team and management deserve enormous credit for the way they applied themselves again and to be unbeaten after the first four matches was beyond expectations.

Without the suspended Matt Pattison, Woking lacked a little drive in midfield but they did create one really good opportunity out of nothing, thanks to good link up play from the front two.

When Sole found Morgan with his back to goal in the inside right position in the 15th minute, there seemed little danger. That was until Morgan’s neat turn and burst of acceleration took him beyond defender Mark Albrighton but keeper Danny Potter raced off his line to spread himself well and keep out Morgan’s close-range effort.

It was Woking’s one and only opportunity to win the game, while United were reduced to the odd half-chance that failed to find its target, before Fortune-West’s late miss.

Fortunately for Woking in terms of the result, but unfortunately for Gindre, Fortune-West proved to be far more accurate with his elbow than his left foot — the keeper having spent his day star-gazing.